Download Festival – The Day Before Tomorrow

It’s Thursday 13th June and it’s the day before Download. The rain has already appeared in the UK, right on cue and entrepreneurs who have stocked up on Wellington boots and rain coats will surely have a field day (geddit?).

There are a host of acts at Download spread across a variety of stages and a three-day timescale. Listed below are our personal preferences for bands you should see. Take note that, as in keeping with our permanently confused state that, it will not be possible to see all these acts, as some appear at the same time or cross over with appearance times, and unless you are Superman (or similar), you will not be able to make it from one area to another in time. Good hey? Nevertheless we have done it this way because we didn’t want to leave anybody out just because their times conflicted with another favourite of ours. If anyone somehow manages to achieve seeing all these acts. please let us know, because he who overcomes will inherit all this and I will be his God and he will be my son. One for CoF fans (you work it out).

FRIDAY 14TH JUNE

WE ARE THE OCEAN – THE JÄGERMEISTER ACOUSTIC STAGE – 18.25 – 18.55

BLOOD COMMAND – THE RED BULL STUDIO STAGE – 18.15 -18.40

EMPEROR CHUNG – THE PEPSI MAX STAGE 13.00 – 13.25

IN THIS MOMENT – THE PEPSI MAX STAGE 17.05 – 17.35

TURISAS – THE PEPSI MAX STAGE 17.55 – 18.25

URIAH HEEP – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 14.45 – 15.25

VOLBEAT – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 18.00 – 18.40

KORN – MAIN STAGE 17.55 – 18.55

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE – MAIN STAGE 19.20 – 20.20

SLIPKNOT – THE MAIN STAGE 21.00 – 22.50

SATURDAY 15TH JUNE

I DIVIDE – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 11.00 – 11.25

KATATONIA – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 14.30 – 15.00

JIMMY EAT WORLD – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 18.20 – 19.00

ENTER SHIKARI – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 19.35 – 20.35

MASTODON – THE MAIN STAGE – 14.30 – 15.20

ALICE IN CHAINS – THE MAIN STAGE 15.50 -16.40

MOTORHEAD – THE MAIN STAGE 17.10 – 18.10

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – THE MAIN STAGE 18.40 – 19.50

IRON MAIDEN – THE MAIN STAGE 20.50 – 22.50

SUNDAY 16TH JUNE

MASTERS OF REALITY – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 14.25 -14.55

AMON AMARTH – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 15.20 – 15.50

AIRBOURNE – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 18.15 – 18.55

LIMP BIZKIT – THE ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE 20.50 – 22.00

CANCER BATS – THE MAIN STAGE – 11.55 – 12.25

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – THE MAIN STAGE 13.55 – 14.35

STONE SOUR – THE MAIN STAGE 16.10 – 17.10

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM – THE MAIN STAGE 17.40 – 18.40

RAMMSTEIN – THE MAIN STAGE 21.15 – 22.50

Well that’s our recommendations up and running.

We know it’s impossible to see them all, but you make the decisions at the end of the day.